I am currently using Solaris 11 as an iSCSI target; however after updating to 11.1 and ZFS 34 My Linux clients stopped booting from the LUN's it seems they can read the MBR and bootloader but that is about all. I've tried adding some new zfs LUN's and the Windows and Linux Initiators can see them but give out I/O errors or freeze up when trying to Initialize or partition the new disks.

Here are some of the things I've also tried;

Removing all stmf and iscsi configuration e.g. all views,groups,LUN's and targets.
Uninstalling/Re-install the storage-server package group
Using a File as the LUN
Adding a fresh disk with a brand new ZFS pool and using that as the LUN.
Changing record sizes on LUN's e.g. 512K,4096K,8096K

There is nothing in the log's to indicate a problem and I'm at my whits end as to what to do next.

Anyone else having issues with this or can recommend a way to troubleshoot the problem.

I wish I would have searched for this a long time ago. I've easily burned 10 hours troubleshooting this today (I initially thought it had something to do with ZFS send/receive being broken).

Edit -- this is on a clean install, btw. Nothing fancy. Just create a ZFS volume, create an LU, create a view, and then try to hit it with any initiator. You can read everything, but writes have bizarre behavior.

Ok thanks for the heads up, I was just about to do a full re-install. Hard to know what to do next as I don't have a support contract so even if they do release a patch it's not as if I can use it. OpenIndianna is an option but it sounds like this is also being abandoned. I still want to keep my NAS's Solaris based as I like the new ZFS features and COMSTAR.

I was going to check for a bug report but it appears I can't even view support.oracle.com without a support contract. I did have an expired Solaris 10 contract which allowed me to at least view patches and bugs until recently, but now nothing. Aarggghhhh!

I haven't tried Solaris Initiator to Solaris Target but maybe it works. I've only tried Linux/Windows7 Initiators to the Solaris Target. Also NFS/CIFS creating zpools and slices all work fine in S11.1 for me.

vmware connects via iscsi and adds the zfsr10 lun and formats it as vmfs5 then create some machines on this lun
windows 2008 r2 connects via iscsi and adds the zfsr6 lun as GPT and formats it as NTFS then some files and folders are added to it.

shutdown all machines in vmware on zfsr10 to make sure nothing writes to the disk, shutdown the windows 2008 machine so it doesn't write to the zfsr6 lun.

upgrade solaris from 11 to 11.1

reboot solaris

rescan disk in vmware - disk does not appear > goto add new lun, which shows up but asks for reformat
removed the sbdadm delete-lu and recreate a new lu then add-view to the new guid
vmware sees the lun when add it, instead of asking to format it asks if you want to keep existing signature > yes
add process is complete but lun does not appear

windows 2008 will take a long time to load before it cant read the lun, it will mark the disk as offline. If you bring it online it will ask to be formatted.

We have a description of this problem internally and they are doing some more testing
to better understand it. If you can wait until tomorrow we might be able to identify a
reasonable workaround that most likely be applied to a Linux or Windows initiator.

The Solaris 11.1 initiator/target configuration does not seem to be impacted.

Yeah Solaris Initiator to Solaris Target is not a problem for me either, in fact I was able to remote install the operating system onto the target. It's all other vendors to Solaris Target that is not working (which is the most common scenario in the real world). Hopefully they do the sensible thing and provide a patch to community users or re-release the 11.1 installer.

Asking users to fix it in the initiator seems like the wrong approach since that would require "fixes" to every potential Windows, Linux, Unix, VMware, Bios, etc, initiator out in the wild. Seems especially troublesome since all of these were working with the Solaris target software up to 11.1. Doesn't seem too likely that the rest of the world "broke" the day Solaris 11.1 was release...just sayin.